18.01.2025 23:47:22 Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 10:29:48PM +0100, sirjofri wrote: >> In general, we have a lot of "this is how tool X works" manuals, and a lack >> of "this is how task X can be done" documentation. The fqa is probably the >> most famous example of the latter, next to the intro man pages. I would be >> happy if we had more on-line documentation like the intro pages, but for >> more specific tasks. I feel that many new users especially encounter >> situations where they just don't know what can be done. > > Part of the problem is that people insist on using hostile mail > services. Every time anyone puts together a decent upas tutorial it > gets immediately tripled in size by workarounds required for GMail. > The overcomplicated GMail version becomes oral legend, so nobody knows > what things to do for normal email and what things to do for bad email.
I'm pretty sure that's not only GMail's fault. Also, I believe we all know about the broken state of email in the recent years. It's far away from the original email experience we had and should have. > I don't know who wrote it, but there's a nice document at > http://wiki.9front.org/upas-theory which works well as a "what does this > piece do again?" refresher. Iirc, ori (?) wanted to clean up the config directory to get rid of outdated information and improve the structure. Also to make it way more understandable. sirjofri ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T88b1ba241b319a33-M3c39b66eb3014bc8a2c8414e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
